Ice wine with peach and apricot

Mar. 5, 2008

Wine of the Day

A look at wines you can sample at the Greater New York Wine & Food Festival, which is April 4, 5 and 6 at the Doubletree Hotel Tarrytown. Visit LoHud.com/wine for tickets and information.

Today's pick: Inniskillin Riesling Icewine 2005. Canada is one of the few places in the world where wine can be made from healthy grapes that were picked when still frozen on the vine. It's the water in the grape that freezes, and because it is discarded with the skins when the wine is made, the juice is extraordinarily concentrated and pure. Riesling has tremendous natural acidity, so it balances with the residual sugar in the wine to give a crisp, clean finish - but after a brilliant burst of peach, apricot, nectarine and apple flavors on the palate. Brilliant for dessert, or just by itself. A fascinating match with cheese, too - just not blue cheese.

- From Lisa Granik, Master of Wine, a title conferred to only 265 people in the world by the The Institute of Masters of Wine in London.